February 2010 Weather Pattern at Visakhapatnam Earth's Space Environment

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Vol.2010, Issue No.2; Dated 28th February 2010 10:46:41 AM

Weather Following Mahasivarathri of 2010 year and the Earthquakes of February Month
By Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd Prof of Physics, Shivaji University)
17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhaptnam-530002

Keywords: Earthquake, Andhra Pradesh, weather in February 2010, Venus, Moon and Jupiter, Coronal Hole, gravity waves

A SUMMARY REPORT:
The weather pattern at Visakhapatnam was very astounding immediately following the Mahasivarathri on the 12th February 2010. The time of Sun entry into a constellation was specified as 3:45 AM of 12th instant. The very next day the leaves of dried up plants have sprouted (see image of the Seethaphal plant) and the Noorvarahulu tree has flowered with radiant structured red and white bands on the petals. Continuously the subsequent days it flowered with full glory at the tip of every branch but with no leaves at all. The daytime weather became very warm and sultry (typical of Visakhapatnam) and the nights continued to be very chilly, till the date 20th February 2010.
And then the clouds have gathered and soft chilly winds in the warm sun have created a pleasant atmosphere. The cloudy weather persisted during the day time with some features of gravity waves. But on the 26th Feb 2010 night the Moon was hidden in the clouds but scattered light was vividly red in colour ‏‎20:03PM. This implies excessive dust in the atmosphere that persisted to late in the night of 26th Feb. 2010. Was the dust rise an indication of earth tremors in Kadappa and Chittor districts? But then on the night of 27th Feb 2010 the night sky was devoid of any clouds and the 14th Day moon was with its attractive moonshine. Spaceweather.com has published the coronal hole image of the 14th February 2010.The Jupiter, Moon and Venus were near on the 14th February 2010 on the western sky in the evening.
Compiled and Collected: GOOGLE and Other News Agent Reports
A strong earthquake in Chile that registered 8.8 on the Richter scale on February 27. Striking the South American country during the post-midnight hours, its epicenter was near the city of Concepcion .The tremor caused a tsunami wave and lasted approximately one minute, occurring at approximately 6:34 AM (GMT).The quake was felt as far away as Japan, and was followed up by an aftershock that registered 6.2 on the Richter scale some three hours later. The quake was felt in Santiago, the capital city. The epicenter of the quake is located in the Pacific Ocean, some 25 miles below the surface, in the region of Maule – approximately 300 miles from Santiago.Feb. 27: Mild tremors were felt in Rayachoti town and a few other villages in this district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, police said. People ran out of their houses as the tremors lasted for a few seconds in the early hours. Some houses also developed cracks, but there was no damage,A moderate earthquake has rattled northern Pakistan and Afghanistan but there are no reports of injuries or damage.A Pakistani government meteorologist Qamar Zaman Chaudhry says the quake happened at 4:21 a.m. Pakistan time on Sunday (2321 GMT; 6:21 p.m. EDT on Saturday).It was felt in northern Pakistan and in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.The U.S. Geological Survey says it was a magnitude 5.7 quake, and was centred in the Hindu Kush mountains, 110 miles (175 kilometers) northeast of Kabul.Srinagar, Feb 28 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir valley in the wee hours on Sunday. The office of the Meteorological Department said: "The quake with its epicenter located in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan hit Kashmir valley in the wee hours."Mumbai, Feb. 28 (ANI): Mumbai's fishermen community - known as Kolis - are celebrating the annual festival of 'Nariyal Poonima', marking the beginning of the fishing season..

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

Spontaneous news items by various agencies of the devasting earth quakes and tremors followed by tsunami threats

are hereby greatly acknowledged in the service of Global human welfare.

ARTICLE 15th 70th B'Day Volume 2009-2010 of Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana

ARTICLE 15 trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com, Dated 23rd November 2009
70th Birth Day Volume 2009-2010, ARTICLE 15 on PLASMA PHYSICS EFFORT BY
Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
Retd Prof of Physics,SU
17-11-10,Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P. O. Visakhaptnam-530002. Mobile 9491902867
Email ID: lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:
The topics investigated under the guidance of Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana at Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416004, Maharashtra State, include several aspects of Plasma Physics of Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Neutron stars and Gravitational quantization. Gravy Quarks are proposed with Spinorial Optical properties. Plasma Physics specialization and Space Science subjects were initiated. Exciton plasmas and other related studies of Solid State and Device applications have been taught by him with the introduction of a new specialization termed the “GENERAL PHYSICS”. It was thought to enlighten students on defence related topics.
keywords: Plasma Physics, Shivaji University, NOAA (Boulder),PRL(India), General Physics, Space Physics, Radio Astronomy, Gauge Invariance, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Canonical Quantization, Gravity,
Preamble:
It’s very interesting that the Board of Studies has approved Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana proposed syllabus on November 23, 1983 [official letter No.SU/BOS/M.Sc./Physics/4228] by Shivaji University, Kolhapur as “Introduction of New paper Plasma Physics and Applications” for semester IV. For the Registrar one Mr. Powar has signed the intimation letter with the syllabus given by Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana reproduced overleaf. (See attached scan images).

After having taught it for a couple of years and the student notes were ready the paper has been allotted to Dr. Ashok Sharma who joined the department of Physics from PRL. He brought in, Plasma Physics book by F. F. Chen and syllabus has been redrafted by KLN for incorporating the several chapters in that book and was again taught by Prof. Dr. K.L.Narayana, as an elective paper for “General Physics specialization” students a common paper for as well to Space Science students.
Dissertation works made by Prof.Dr. K. L. Narayana for the benefit of students led undoubtedly for the initiation of Plasma (PRL) & Space Research (NOAA) centres and Energy research (Florida) collaborations by him. Subsequently he developed as well the thin film and the AIRGEL (FRANCE) study centres and their foreign collaborations.
Professor Dr. K. L. Narayana has been directly responsible for several student workings in the subjects of Plasma Physics and other topics of Theoretical Physics, General Physics and other specialization students since he joined the Physics Department as a lecturer in Theoretical Physics on 1st June 1966. (With a delay of issue of his orders of appointment by a couple of days hence he lost his seniority, to the candidate who has been selected along with him for another subject, who has managed being local to join fifteen days earlier).
A collaborative proposal for the creation of PRL-Ionosphere research programme has been drawn without the knowledge and involvement of Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana. Some PRL scientists have got the benefit of this collaboration. As well the IMD of Mumbai sent a team of people to cooperate with Prof Dr. K L. Narayana, HOD on Plasma Research. Notable among them is Dr. M. K. Mukherjee who recorded AIRGLOW using a nightsky camera of the night sky. Also Dr. Ashok Sarma has been guiding students on Meteors and their observations during night time. An important contribution by Narayana has been to record the colour of the observed meteors. Prof R. V. Bhonsle with the competent vacuum tube expert technical staff, has brought in RADIOSONDE equipment age-old of Swedish make from Delhi IMD. Somehow it has been brought into order with encouragement and personal attention by the then Head of the Department of Physics, Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana. Someone said the Prof Dr. K. L. Narayana developed the department by creating about 17 research and student laboratories to cater to the needs of eight different specializations that have been successfully run during his tenure of just three years. This achievement in three years has been found far beyond the earlier twenty years effort in the Department by others.
Effort by Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana M.Inst.P. (Lond) had been to produce dissertation works in Plasma Physics, Magneto hydrodynamics, Alfven waves, Sun & Rhythm, Ferroelectrics, Unitary Symmetry, Microprocessors, Computer programming in C, Fortran, Pascal and C++ etc and had also developed online data acquisition using the ADC cards from Dynalog company of Mumbai. Soon staff and students have begun aware of advancement by him and they have immediately copiously used these techniques in their project and other research endeavours. First Ph.D thesis has been produced by him using the IBM1620 Machine of TIFR, Mumbai for the calculations of the Force Field Vibrations of Polyatomic Molecules.

Dr K V N Rao’s article in Proc. of the IRE the Special Issue of Plasma Physics in the year 1961 December p.1877-1890,Vol 49,No.12,might have prompted me to initiate studies in Plasma Physics and as well in Solar-Terrestrial Environment research problems. Perhaps that provided Prof. Dr. K. L. Narayana, an imputes to start the Plasma Physics specialization at Shivaji University, when he was a Lecturer in the Department of Physics.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS' EXPERT EFFORT FOR EFFICIENT NETWORK OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY AND FUNCTIONALITY

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K. Sai Rangadhama Rao
ICFAI Business School, Dontannapalli village, Sankarpally Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad
Permanent address: 17-11-10 Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P. O, Visakhapatnam-530002:
Mobile: 9912345252 Email Id: rangadhamas@gmail.com

PREAMBLE:
I am delighted to present this article on the BlogSpot post for the benefit of youngsters at ICFAI foundation for higher education. I am presently an employee of a deemed to be university enterprise in Hyderabad. Earlier I have successfully worked at Visakhapatnam in Computer Maintenance Corporation Institute on network efficient maintenance for the benefit of software development participants and candidates of the Institute.

Administration packages or network management tools need to be understood thoroughly since networks today have become inherently complex and for it many factors have contributed. The nature of our job surpasses over an enterprising CEO.
At ICFAI Business School I deliberate on the following:
I Compatibility capacity of 16MB lease line
II. Administration streamlining of Hewlett Packard server ML350G4
III. Administration smoothness by CISCO Firewall
AIM
The objective of this article is to high light certain fruitful ideas for the optimal performance, reliability and functionality of our server total availability to meet the entire demands of our small and medium enterprisers’ school of business management.
LEASEDLINE:
A dedicated data line of 16MB microwave link of reliance communications for the University campus consisting of Academics (Faculties of Information Technology & operations, Marketing, Finance, Economics, PhD and research sectors), Administration, Accounts, Hostels, Placements Department and Clinic is under my supervision and guidance of network performance and reliability. The design of computer networks is essentially based on the selection of a subset of links such that fault tolerance and reliability are safe guarded. I am alert on distribution of the 16 MB line through proxies to various student and other departments.
The proxies are used to implement security setup. At our Institute, with proper policy decisions, we have implemented the access right to the clients. Firewall is one of the mechanisms widely used and we have preferred the CISCO Firewall. We use advanced TCP/IP configuration settings to assign multiple IP addresses to the network adapter card connected to the INTERNET.
TCP/IP is a router protocol, i.e. each packet routed has a specific address. Dedicated routers connect two networks and route packets between them. Routers are configured to allow only certain packets.
Two main categories of proxies are in use by our organization. One of which caters to the need of students and the other furnishes the requisite bandwidth to the Institute staff at all levels. The nature of the problems by the staff are either due to login failure or unable to accesses the campus network, which is in fact the intranet, or have switching on problems of the computer systems. Then they would report to us about this difficulty they are facing by intercom telephone.
I assert that if one proxy fails the network fails the party concerned cannot access the internet and intranet and these facilities immediately stop. I get the feedback either from the end user regarding the hardware failure or by the campus network then it would be easy for me to assess the nature of the problem faced by the fretful user. Also downtime is to be avoided in this process. The problems that I notice are with power failures, due to hangover of the server and I am fast to respond instantly. To resolve such problems in case of hardware failures I am prompt judiciously to help the anxious party by approaching him personally and restore their efficient operation. The internet or the intranet problems to the end user may also be due to the fibre-optic rupture. In that case I would trace the problem, over the extent of the fibre-optic link, and intimate the company people to assist us.
Server HP ProliantML350G4
This particular server has fault tolerance and raid implementation. This server has also reliability and manageability features and particularly suited for small business enterprises. Our Institute has therefore chosen this server to help our student community to be aware of the implementation and maintenance of this kind of servers.
The role of server is to control the domains. We have a forest which has two domains mainly to provide the requisite Identity and Security. For students there are about 2000 login user Ids. For the staff we have about 500 user login Ids. The domain problem or the problems of login of any party is invoked only when the fretted party informs us. Then we would go through the login data of the previous occasions and asses the present situation.
The client server model of our network ensures that the server verifies the authenticity of a request from client and grants the service, with the server streamlining the resources, especially when we have multiple requests for a particular resource. The paradigm of the centralized control has all the features of a powerful machine with high memory. Virtual directories are restricted to one virtual server by addressing an IP address to them.
OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY:
Documenting our network resources, configurations and logon scripts has been found by me to help the performance of the server. Reliability of the network depends on the planning network design and architecture. Thus we have implemented the best suitable computer network for responsible centralized network administration. We have also implemented the browser-based accesses to in depth instrumentation that allows sending alerts to environmental failures. The fault tolerance of our network has been achieved by optimizing our centralized network reliability. Network switches are chosen to be CISCO kits and though costly have provided us error-free operations and to date have been found to be good. A CISCO route firewall setup has found to provide comprehensive coverage and data protection.

FLATTENED ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY:
This has been found profoundly useful at our Institute for furtherance of closer communication between departments since there only fewer levels that need to be effectively coordinated. So we have much less overhead expenses and achieved considerably more rapid ability in communication.
A key part of our ERP has been to identify the expert critical resource persons to yield higher profits and achieve the desired results.
Six sigma qualities in all processes guaranteed us that failures in quality cannot happen. This helped to quantify the reliability of our processes. So our organization has only defective service in less than 3.4 defects per million.
INTEGRATION:
We have integrated entire Intranet to the Internet, rather than connecting a subnet. So we have many security concerns and implications. Tighter integration is possible with priority for I-frames and significant program identifiers. Data switches are employed to switch spare lines or equipment to switch test equipment on line, to select clients, or to configure the data paths in our network administration. Our network, fault diagnoses and repairs the data line monitors. An A/B switch that substitutes a spare modem, would switch a single line (4-wire analog to 25-wire RS-232) between one or two other lines or devices.

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Network software running on Top of hardware also needs addresses to keep things straight and neat. Any new device attached to the network and turned on it is necessary to reconfigure network possibly by adding a router. Passive network has advantages of being less expensive than an Active NT but requires intranet traffic. At our Institute with the ONU (optical network unit) we have a to and return traffic in the intranet. ONU is responsible for most processing in FTTC systems for ATM layer multiplexing MAC protocol enforcement and electrical to optical media conversion. In the physical layer ONU converts optical signals to electrical signals. FTTC fibre to the curb (paved way) optimizes efficiency, reliability and functionality with rise of the bar on the speed and reliability to and from client for point-to-point wired networks.
ADDITIONAL DOMAIN CONTROLLERS:
Primary domain controller has additional domain controllers for supporting the services like DHCP and DNS so that the clients will be able to use the network for their purposes. We have 2000 laptops and client computers about 750 all of them need to have IP addressing for which we have one main DHCP and another one for fault tolerance. We have implemented VLANs for tighter control of security to grow the network.

When a dynamic configuration protocol and windows internet name service (WINS) are enabled on the network, then clients are entitled to use the server. This is the adopted practice in our Intranet sites. Using DCHP in the intranet needs DHCP server software.
Configuring the forward look-up and the reverse look up Zones helps the DNS server optimally for name resolution in the network.
DNS is a distributed data base that contains mappings between host server names and IP addresses and provides hierarchical structure for identifying the clients. Each host or the node on the DNS is known as a Domain. This DNS tree structure is similar, to the file system, of course consists of domains and sub domains. The host system has indeed a fully quantified domain name (FQDN).
CISCO FIREWALL:
This is basically a hardware based for protection from threats coming from other networks. Our CISCO router is NAT-enabled naturally, to transfer the generated private packet to public network or vice verse, which provides important barrier against the threats from other networks.

NIU:

NIU is the home device that encodes and decodes bits to and from the access network.

NAME RESOLUTION SYSTEM:

NRS helps clients to use friendly names with Internet Explorer when browsing. The advantage of automatic IP addresses administration with DCHP server and WINS server method helped us for the reduction of IP broadcast traffic in Internet works. WINS is more flexible than DNS, allowing client Laptops to easily locate remote systems across LAN and WAN.
Networks have two challenges, classified in to two categories as, technical challenges and Cultural confronts. To support the growing client relationship management (CRM) network infrastructure needs to be continuously tuned to deliver total availability. We have identified CIC (client interaction centre) i.e. central location as the most critical component of the CRM.

SUMMARY:

As a system administrator I have given several ideas mainly to understand the achievement of optimized network performance and reliability for small and medium business enterprisers. The article would be useful for business management consultants and Information Technology practitioners. The cost-wise details I have avoided since it falls in the domain of economics of a network setup. I have concentrated only on the technical aspects of system administration particularly implemented and being efficiently pursued for the benefit of my Institution, faculty and the student community. I have interest and would be providing the algorithms for optimizing the terminal reliability in future.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

I am grateful to my authorities and to my colleagues of the ICFAI Business School and particularly to the Director Prof. D. S. Rao, with whose encouragement and guidance am able to pursue my system administration enterprise for the benefit of my Institution.
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